How did words ending on -tion like Operation, Information, or Kommunikation enter the German language? Do these words come from English or French?
Or were they first brought to English then to German?
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I’ve been looking at early (e.g. 1827) published editions of Goethe's Wandrers Nachtlied II (also known as Ein Gleiches), and I don’t understand the significance of the apostrophe after Ruh in line 2:
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I participated recently in a choir where we worked on Crato Bütner’s motet Wir dancken dir, Herr Jesu Christ. This work is not performed frequently and, apparently, the few copies of the score that ...

I have seen that many times, a German word is spelled with an s, but it is read like an English z.
Moreover, every time this happens, the Dutch cognate word is spelled with a z. (But not the English ...

My German is very rudimentary (A1) and I have no regular exposure to the language except what I get listening to Bach. Recently, I have been very interested in Bach's cantatas. It uses text from the ...

The letter ß is called Eszett, literally meaning s z.
However, when the letter is not available (or when a word is in all caps), ß is almost always substituted by the digraph ss rather than sz (e.g. ...

As displayed in this answer by nixda one can nicely compare how often do certain words appear in "lots of books", in lots of languages. When reading the answer it's plausible to want to do some cross ...

In this question we learned that one origin of new prepositions are adverbs or fixed prepositional phrases. These prepositions go initially with genitive (and then perhaps mutate into dative).
When ...

I´m looking for a book on German Literature, describing its history the differents phases and currents, something rather exhaustive and "umfangreich". Is there a classic textbook ? (like for example ...

As in Southern dialects the Präteritum or Mitvergangenheit is often dropped in favor of the perfect tense, I was wondering about some things regarding the "i wår" (apparently the Präteritum of "sein") ...

Still in the 19. Century for "Müll" we have both, a neuter and a masculine gender whereas its gender today is masculine. Interestingly it also seems to have had a different meaning than today (trash, ...